652 Quotes About Pessimism

The optimistic nature finds joy in the very feeling for life; the pessimistic nature finds a feeling for life only in joy.

Some people are lucky to do what they love for a living, but are unlucky not to be allowed to do it how they want to do it.

Death is freedom from life.

The vast majority of people are each a puppet that is forever pulled in this or that direction, or pushed into this or that action, by things such as public opinion and an emotion.

Having to make a difficult or important decision is sometimes more agonizing than not having a choice.

It is a curse to be childish, but a blessing to be childlike.

The shaping of how we are feeling by how we are looking at life is always in tough competition with the shaping of how we are looking at life by how we are feeling.

What is deemed a nightmare by one person another deems an adventure.

I simply cannot afford to be ignorant of the monumental challenges that constantly batter and beset the world around me. But neither can I afford to be ignorant of the cancer of pessimism that constantly rallies the entire weight of its defeatist character in an all-out effort to convince me that the abilities inherent in mankind are far, far too inadequate to challenge the challenges. And it might be that the greatest challenge of all is to challenge this sort of thinking.